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• back to the salt mines
  вернуться к чему-либо с большой неохотой; например к работе, которую не хочется делать

  The work was tedious; they finished their coffee and went back to the salt mines.
• rub salt in (someone's) wound
  растравлять чью-либо рану, сыпать соль на рану

  Hugo's wife rubbed salt in his wound for having broken their car.
• salt (something) away
  припрятывать, "складывать в кубышку"

  I have been salting away some money, so that I can go on a holiday to Spain.
• salt of the earth
  соль земли (основательные, добрые люди)

  The majority of the people in our company is the salt of the earth; they are hard-working and friendly.
• take (something) with a grain of salt
  относиться к чему-либо недоверчиво, скептически

  My friend is an imaginative person, and I always take everything he says with a grain of salt.
• worth one's salt
  стоить затраченных денег или уважения

  When the baseball team lost two games in succession, people felt that the coach was hardly worth his salt.